To-do: Week starting 6/5: The White Ribbon, Near Dark, Goemon, Kurosawa
Click the links for trailers. The rest of the week and venue information after the jump.
THURSDAY 6th
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke’s provocative tale of a series of mysterious violent occurences in a village just prior to World War I, opens.
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench plays at ACMI as part of their Jazz on Film programme. A contemporary combination of mumblecore and MGM musicals, the film recalls such filmmakers as Cassavetes, Godard and Demy. Looks intriguingly fun.
I Love You Too, a comedy about a committment-phobe finding the courage to blah blah blah. Stars Peter Helliar and a dwarf.
Playing For Charlie, an “inspirational” coming-of-age tale about a teenage boy growing up in a miserable small town with dreams of playing rugby, opens.
Soul Kitchen, a German comedy about the troubles of a restauranteur from director Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven), opens.
Love, Lust and Lies, an Australian take on Michael Apted’s Up series from Gillian Armstrong (Little Women), screens at Nova followed by a Q&A with director Armstrong.
FRIDAY 7th
Black Orpheus, the 1959 Palme D’or-winning film is a Brazilian retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice by Marcel Camus with an influential bossa nova soundtrack. Showing at ACMI as part of its Jazz on Film programme.
Freaky Fridays presents Near Dark, the 1987 Southern Gothic vampire horror film from Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Strange Days), at ACMI.
SATURDAY 8th
Goemon, a ninja-romance-fantasy-action-revenge epic from Japan, plays an extended season at ACMI from May 8th to May 30th.
Playing for Charlie screens at Nova followed by a Q&A with the film’s director, lead actor and composer.
SUNDAY 9th
Some Like it Hot, the gender-bending comedy from 1959 directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, plays with Charade, a thriller comedy from 1963 starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn as a matinee double at Astor.
In the evening Astor screens a Pink Panther double: The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976).
MONDAY 10th
Alien, the Ridley Scott original from 1979 and James Cameron’s 1986 sequel Aliens at the Astor.
TUESDAY 11th
CineCult303 presents the Short Short Film Fest at Bar 303 in Northcote to celebrate the venue’s 10th anniversary.
WEDNESDAY 12th
Cinematheque presents a Kurosawa double-feature: 1950’s Scandal, about the rise of the tabloid press in post-war Japan, and 1958’s The Hidden Fortress, about a general smuggling a princess to safety with the help of two peasants, a major influence on Star Wars: A New Hope.
